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Arteritis

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The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

n. Inflammation of an artery.

Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License

n. The inflammation of arterial walls, often due to infection or an autoimmune response.

the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English

n. Inflammation of an artery or arteries.

The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

n. Inflammation of an artery or of the arteries.

WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

n. inflammation of an artery

Word Usage

"I worried, I fretted, I went to see my gp, and a locum--substitute personnel filling in temporarily, for all my non-UK friends--scared me with a possible diagnosis of temporal arteritis, which my regular gp then negated."

Hypernym

Words that are more generic or abstract

rubor inflammation redness

Hyponym

temporal arteritis periarteritis takayasu's arteritis pulseless disease polyarteritis

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